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Dragonite evolved to have arms so they can give hugs

#dragonite #evolution

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Top Pokemon professors all have tree names because of the Pokemon science community's bias in favor of them.

They are not necessarily more capable, but they are perceived to be, and thus receive the best grants, funding, attention, and prestige. Studies have shown that scientists with such names author more papers on average, and are more likely to be published in the best journals of their specific fields.

It is such a widely known phenomenon that it has actively shaped the community. Aspiring professors and scientists will adopt tree-related pseudonyms in order to be taken more seriously. Scientists will often give their children garden-themed names, or names from which such nicknames can easily be derived.

Some examples:

Dr. William O > Dr. Will O (Willow)

Prof Everett Green > Prof EverGreen

Elmore > Elm

Lilliana > Lily

Newly famous professors Sada and Turo have notably rejected this tree naming convention in the hopes that Poke science community can forego this trend and focus on the actual merits of one's work.

#pokemon worldbuilding #professors #professor tree names #professors sada and turo #i like to think it is a somewhat recent trend #probably because of prof oak #i find that i blame a lot of the bureaucracy and silly logic on him lol

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Each unit in a Falinks is assigned a letter F, A, L, I, N, and K, so that together they are a Falinks.

The letters themselves don't necessarily stand for anything, but people often treat it like an acrostic and give each one a meaning. Some commonly accepted meanings for F are:

F as in front (the brass is always the front and also the F)

F as in Fight! (because they are fighting type)

F as in Fuck you up (related to them being fighting types, but more emphasis on the fact that they can seriously beat down their enemies)

And my personal favorite,

F to pay respects (the brass is the biggest one, the head, the boss, respect him!)

#falinks #falinks acrostic #falinks name meaning #i imagine little kids in the pokemon world making little acrostic drawings of falinks as part of their curriculum #basic tho ofc #f for front #a for army #that kind of thing

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Falinks Height

The Pokedex entry is misleading when it lists Falinks' height as 9ft. That's the length. The six of them make a line that is 9ft long.

#falinks

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Corsola in the Galar region are ghost types because they couldn't find a suitable niche/job during the region's industrialization boom ( they "died" D: )

#corsola #galar corsola

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Capitalism exists in the Pokemon world. That's why all the Galar Pokemon look like That and have jobs

#:c #galar pokemon

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The factoid about Spoink dying if it stops bouncing is an oversimplification.

Spoink continuously bounce because they must focus on a repetitive task to keep its psychic power in check.

This is also why the crystal ball on Spoink's head is so important. It provides 1) something tangible for Spoink to focus on, as well as, 2) an additional task (not just bouncing, but bouncing while balancing the orb). Furthermore, it stores that focused psychic energy, which Spoink can later use to evolve.

Taking the orb effectively stops Spoink from bouncing, causing an overwhelming surge of psychic power. Unfortunately, many Spoink's physical bodies can't handle that amount of stress, causing them to suffer a heart attack and die. Some Spoink, however, are able to manage some time without their orb/bouncing, albeit in much distress. This is a dangerously unhealthy state, so it's recommended that they be given something similar to their orb in the meantime until they get it back.

#spoink #they get very depressed without their orb which is another cause for concern #an object similar in shape helps in the short term #but if it cant ALSO store the psychic energy #its just going to pop or shatter or otherwise break #putting Spoink back at square 1 #best to find them an orb

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The National Pokedex is numbered the way it is based on when various Pokemon were "registered" by the different regions and accepted by the Board. It's more or less arbitrary. Kanto got to be first because the Board was founded in Kanto, Professor Oak was THE top researcher in the world at the time and he hails from Kanto, other bureaucratic/political reasons...

Each region internally has to decide which Pokemon they want to claim as theirs, and then submit their selection for registration as a set. Every region is doing this at the same time, however, so there's a lot of "first come first served" logic going on. So whenever one region has pushed their group through and been officially registered, the other regions have to revise their own selections, resubmit paperwork, etc.

Pokemon are not necessarily listed with their evolutionary line in order/near each other because some stages are considered as belonging to one region over the others.

The Mime Jr > Mr. Mime > Mr. Rime evolutionary line is a great example of this. All of these Pokemon have been present in the Kanto, Sinnoh, and Galar regions for about the same amount of time. However, each one is considered to be specifically part of one region over the others for many reasons.

Going chronologically in the National Dex order, Kanto pretty much only cared to register their Mr. Mime form that is more commonly seen throughout the region. Because they knew their choices would be registered first, and since they already had a large set of Pokemon, they decided to let other regions scrabble over the other Pokemon in Mr. Mime's evolutionary line. This decision mostly affected Galar, but we'll get to that in a bit.

Next up is Sinnoh's claim to Mime Jr.! They were able to more quickly register Mime Jr. because of the region's love of cute baby Pokemon. Most of the other regions didn't even bother trying to claim most of the baby forms precisely because of how strongly they tied in to Sinnoh culture.

Finally we get to Galar and its struggles in registering their Mr. Mime variant and Mr. Rime!

So, as previously stated, Kanto had a large part in forming the National Dex. One thing they did was make it hard to register different variants of the same Pokemon, especially if they were regional variants of Kanto's claimed Pokemon.

Essentially, once Kanto decided that a Pokemon species was officially registered, it could not be registered again. Makes sense right? Except that Kanto applied this rule to regional variants.

Regional forms were stuck in this weird space where everyone knew they existed, but they weren't officially recognized. Registration applications including regional forms were often denied on the grounds that they were invalid because that particular species was already registered with Kanto :))

So Galar had a lot of difficulty getting their own Mr. Mime through. Even if it was drastically different in appearance, was even a whole different typing, AND had its own evolution.

If anything, the existence of Mr. Rime was used as evidence against Galar's Mr. Mime. "You can register Mr. Rime because it's a completely *new* species, sure! No you cannot say it evolves from Mr. Mime because we don't have any Mr. Rime in Kanto, the Official Home of Mr. Mime. No you cannot register your weird Mr. Mime, we've already got The official Kanto one and he does not look like that. No you can't register it with incomplete data, it clearly comes from that unstandard Mr. Mime, which we will not register because it's Wrong."

Eventually people became more in favor of recognizing regional variants and Galar was finally able to submit its set of Pokemon including their own regional forms and region-specific evolutions.

And that's why Mr. Mime is "from" Kanto with a regional variant in Galar, comes from Mime Jr. which is "from" Sinnoh, and conditionally evolves into Mr. Rime which is "from" Galar, even though they're all the same evolutionary line!

#pokedex #national pokedex #national dex #mime jr #mr mime #mr rime #any criticisms of the pokedex can be attributed to bureaucracy

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Ghosts probably do exist in the Pokemon world, but they're separate from ghost type Pokemon. Whatever criteria/force separates humans from pokemon continues even in the afterlife. However, most living people can't perceive them, while most ghost type Pokemon can!

This is why there are so many stories like Phantump being the soul of lost children who died in forests. Rather than being the child itself turned into a Pokemon, Phantump have always been around, living in forests, and they like to play with kids that wander by.

Tragically, some of those kids are lost or runaways, unable to fend for themselves. And another misfortune on top of that is that wild Phantump generally don't know how to take care of these lost children or help them learn some survival skills. They play, hang out, keep each other company.

Sometimes the kid dies, but their spirit remains. Phantump don't quite get the difference between their friend's corporeal and spirit forms- honestly they don't care either way. So their friendships continue beyond death.

Naturally, the Pokemon picks up a lot of traits and habits the kid used to possess. And since the living can't see the spirit of their dearly departed, but they CAN see this childlike ghost Pokemon who acts uncannily like their dearly departed, they connect some dots and conclude that Phantump IS their dearly departed.

#ghost type #phantump

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The Pokedex entries for ghost type Pokemon are largely based on various local myths, folklore, and legends (as in stories, not the legendary pokemon). Ghost type are just regular Pokemon, albeit a little on the spooky side, not spirits or the souls of people.

It IS hard to study ghost types because something about them messes with lab equipment and research machines, so there's still a lot of questions about their origins, why they be like that, etc, which is why the folklore-inspired Pokedex entries persist

#ghost type #basically people make up shit because what else are they gonna do #just like me here lol

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Pokemon can use only 4 moves in the games even though they "know" more because they have to practice each move to the point they can use it perfectly in battle and it's easier for them to focus on a set of 4. Better to know you're only going to use a small set of moves perfectly each time, than have to filter through your whole actual move pool of moves you may or may not have practiced well enough to perform in battle

#battles #movesets #like when you want to master a trick irl you practice the one thing over and over and over #before incorporating it into some kind of routine with more tricks #idk about why higher level pokemon cant expand their move pool #haven't thought about it much yet

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I think psychic types are a blessing for elderly people and not just them. They could call for help telepathically in case of ailments or help them out with the house. I had a story about a Trainer who gets an Eevee and said trainer explains to the Pokémon that the reason why they caught her was to help her Grandma out, she's lonely and full of aches, once she becomes an Espeon. Spoiler: The Eevee is now an Espeon called Aurora who gets belly rubs and treats.

I absolutely adore the idea of service Pokémon, there are so many species whose abilities can be used to help people of all kinds.

For fun, I'll go ahead and brainstorm some more ideas too:

Growlithe, Herdier: Unconditionally loyal, these two make for great companion/therapy/seeing-eye Pokémon. Also used as police dogs.

Chansey, Blissey, Audino, Indeedee: Caring, supportive and very intelligent. Inclined to help people who are injured or who need general assistance.

Wigglytuff, Eevee, Skitty: Great emotional support Pokémon that enjoy being held and snuggled.

Machoke, Timburr: Enjoy carrying large and heavy objects for people. Great for assisting the elderly or those with back injuries/weakness.

Alakazam, Gardevoir, Musharna: Intelligent Pokémon that use their psychic abilities to read their trainer's thoughts, needs and feelings. Great for assisting people who cannot speak or have trouble moving.

I'm sure there's plenty more out there, these are just a few that came to me while I was thinking about it ^^

#rb

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you know how IRL scientists are always ready to throw hands over certain topics? what I want to know is what kind of stupid arguments Pokemon scientists get into fights over. a heated battle starts in the middle of a conference because someone asked if Slowking’s Shellder could be considered its own separate species or not

#rb

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"New" fairy type classification

Pokemon that are now considered fairy type didn't suddenly change from normal to fairy types. Those Pokemon species were variants, and now only one variant exists.

Using Clefairy as an example, all the normal type Clefairy died out and only fairy type Clefairy remain. Mutations had been happening for a while so that at some point, both normal- and fairy- types existed. They were almost indistinguishable from each other. But recent research consistently shows fairy typing for all Clefairy, and there are no more that test true for normal typing.

#clefairy #fairy type

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I explain stuff about the Pokemon world so it makes sense

#at least to me #idk about anyone else #this is basically a bunch of my own headcanons